Any Moslems who don't like Rushdie being honored are welcome to choose not to honor him in their countries. They are not welcome to put a price on his head--and it's amazing to read any excuses for their doing so--or far-fetched theories about how the UK planned to outrage Moslems.

If Mudcatters can't realize that there is absolutely no excuse for killing an author just for what he has written, it does not speak well for those who don't realize this.

If those on the left of center feel the UK government should not have honored Rushdie for fear of what a small segment of Moslems--by no means representative of Islam-- might think, they (left of center Westerners) need to think about what freedom of the press is.